Decade Association - Answers

1960s

  • "Long hot summers"
  • Freedom Summer
  • Greensboro sit-ins
  • U-2 incident
  • Détente

1920s

  • “Lost generation”
  • Warren G. Harding
  • Henry Ford
  • Sacco and Vanzetti
  • Marcus Garvey

1930s

  • Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)
  • Phony War
  • Congress of Industrial Organization
  • Brain Trust
  • Huey Long (Kingfish)

1940s

  • Alger Hiss
  • NSC 68
  • NATO
  • Casablanca Conference
  • Henry Wallace

1820s

  • American Colonization Society
  • Missouri Compromise
  • Era of Good Feelings
  • Tariff of Abominations
  • South Carolina Exposition

1880s

  • American Federation of Labor
  • Dawes Act
  • Alfred Thayer Mahan
  • Horizontal integration/vertical integration
  • Haymarket Square Incident

1950s

  • Baby Boomers
  • Sputnik
  • Beat Generation
  • Brown v. Board of Education
  • Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

1930s

  • Bank Holiday
  • National Recovery Act
  • Destroyer Deal
  • Scottsboro Boys
  • Wagner Act

1790s

  • Bank of the United States
  • Virginia-Kentucky Resolutions
  • XYZ Affair
  • Whiskey Rebellion
  • Jay Treaty

1830s

  • Bank War
  • Spoils System/Rotation in Office
  • Second Great Awakening
  • Transcendentalism
  • Gag Rule

1770s

  • Battle of Saratoga
  • Thomas Paine/Common Sense
  • Coercive/Intolerable Acts
  • Olive Branch Petition
  • Boston Tea Party

1960s

  • Bay of Pigs
  • Malcolm X
  • War on Poverty
  • Warren Commission
  • Ralph Nader (Unsafe at any Speed)

1870s

  • Bland-Allison Act
  • Thomas Nast
  • Henry George (Progress and Poverty)
  • Munn v. Illinois
  • “Crime of ‘73”

1890s

  • Boxer Rebellion
  • Coxey’s Army
  • Frederick Olmstead
  • Teller Amendment
  • Wounded Knee

1870s

  • Chautauqua Movement
  • Freedmen’s Bureau
  • Battle of Little Bighorn
  • “Waving the bloody shirt”
  • Boss Tweed

1910s

  • Committee on Public Information
  • League of Nations
  • Federal Reserve System
  • International Workers of the World
  • 16th, 17th, 18th Amendments

1780s

  • Connecticut (Great) Compromise
  • Virginia/New Jersey Plans
  • Disestablishment
  • Barbary Pirates
  • Treaty of Paris

1910s

  • Creel Committee
  • Henry Cabot Lodge
  • “Birth of a Nation”/D.W. Griffith
  • Article X
  • Wobblies

1840s

  • Cult of Domesticity/True Womanhood
  • Manifest Destiny
  • James K. Polk
  • Neal Dow
  • Lucretia Mott

1850s

  • Dred Scott v. Sandford
  • Fugitive Slave Law
  • Gadsden Purchase
  • Bleeding Kansas
  • Sumner-Brooks Affair

1860s

  • Emancipation Proclamation
  • Trent Affair
  • Homestead Act
  • Battle of Antietam
  • Crittenden Compromise

1920s

  • F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Cultural Isolation
  • Quota System
  • Harlem Renaissance
  • Washington Naval Conference

1940s

  • Fair Deal
  • Japanese Internment
  • Truman Doctrine
  • Yalta Conference
  • Taft-Hartley Act

1930s

  • Fair Labor Standards Act
  • New Deal
  • Bonus March
  • 21st Amendment
  • Dole

1950s

  • Federal Highway Act
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott
  • Eisenhower Doctrine
  • Korean War
  • Alan Ginsberg (The Howl)

1850s

  • Freeport Doctrine
  • Clayton-Bulwer Treaty
  • Lincoln-Douglas Debates
  • Uncle Tom’s Cabin
  • Nashville Convention

1700-1750

  • French and Indian War
  • Albany Plan
  • Mercantilism
  • Salutary Neglect
  • William Pitt

1920s

  • Georgia O’Keefe
  • Edward Hopper
  • Normalcy
  • “Back to Africa” Movement
  • Albert Fall

1850s

  • Hinton Helper/Impending Crisis
  • Stephen Douglas
  • Popular Sovereignty
  • Ostend Manifesto
  • Lecompton Constitution

1930s

  • Hundred Days
  • America First Committee
  • Elijah Mohammad (Black Muslims)
  • Keynesian Economics
  • National Labor Relations Act

1900s

  • Insular Cases
  • “Good and Bad” Trusts
  • Charles and Mary Beard
  • Great White Fleet
  • Square Deal

1940s

  • Jackie Robinson
  • GI Bill of Rights
  • Berlin Airlift
  • Marshall Plan
  • San Francisco Conference

1900s

  • Jacob Riis
  • Northern Securities Case
  • Samuel “Golden Rule” Jones
  • Muller v. Oregon
  • Robert LaFollette

1970s

  • Jimmy Carter
  • Watergate
  • Roe v. Wade
  • Affirmative Action
  • Gerald Ford

1830s

  • John C. Calhoun
  • Abolitionists
  • Charles River Bridge Case
  • DeTocqueville/Democracy in America
  • Removal of Deposits

1920s

  • Kellogg-Briand Pact
  • Herbert Hoover
  • H.L. Mencken
  • Charles Lindbergh
  • Scopes Trial

1850s

  • Know Nothing/American Party
  • Kansas-Nebraska Act
  • Republican Party/3rd Am. Party Sys.
  • Antebellum
  • Underground Railroad

1920s

  • Langston Hughes
  • Andrew Mellon
  • National Origins Act
  • Ku Klux Klan
  • Calvin Coolidge

1800s

  • Lewis and Clark
  • Orders in Council
  • Yeoman Farmers
  • Gabriel Prosser’s Rebellion
  • Judicial Review

1950s

  • Little Rock School Crisis
  • National Defense Education Act
  • Dynamic Conservatism
  • Jack Kerouac (On the Road)

1790s

  • Loose/Strict Constructionism
  • Cotton Gin/Eli Whitney
  • Citizen Genet
  • Bill of Rights
  • Alien and Sedition Acts

1800s

  • Marbury v. Madison
  • Embargo Act
  • Louisiana Purchase
  • Impressments
  • Interchangeable Parts

1920s

  • Margaret Sanger
  • Thomas Hart Benton
  • Teapot Dome/Elk Hills Scandals
  • Universal Negro Improvement Association
  • “Spirit of St. Louis”

1960s

  • Miranda v. Arizona
  • John F. Kennedy (New Frontier)
  • Huey Newton (Black Panthers)
  • Michael Harrington (The Other America)
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

1860s

  • Molly McGuires
  • “Forty Acres and a Mule”
  • National Labor Union
  • Crop Lien System
  • Granger Laws

1820s

  • Monroe Doctrine
  • Corrupt Bargain
  • Erie Canal
  • Lowell/Waltham System/Lowell Girls
  • Gibbons v. Ogden

1860s

  • Morrill Land Grant Act
  • National Banking Act
  • Nature of the Union
  • 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments
  • Radical Reconstruction

1930s

  • National Industrial Recovery Act
  • Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC)
  • TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority)
  • Franklin Roosevelt
  • Bonus March

1890s

  • New Immigrants
  • Plessy v. Ferguson
  • Joseph Pulitzer
  • Populist (People’s Party)
  • Turner (Frontier) Thesis

1910s

  • New Nationalism
  • Mann-Elkins Act
  • “Black Jack” John Pershing
  • Insurgent’s Revolt
  • New Freedom

1880s

  • Open Range
  • Interstate Commerce Act
  • Andrew Carnegie
  • John D. Rockefeller
  • Mugwumps

1840s

  • Oregon Territory
  • John Slidell
  • Commonwealth v. Hunt
  • Horace Mann
  • Webster-Ashburton Treaty

1910s

  • Palmer Raids
  • Schenck v. U.S.
  • Clayton Anti-Trust Act
  • Keating-Owen Child Labor Act
  • Preparedness

1900s

  • Panama Canal
  • W.E.B. DuBois (Niagara Movement)
  • Dollar Diplomacy
  • Open Door Policy
  • Roosevelt Corollary

1960s

  • Peace Corps
  • Betty Friedan (The Feminine Mystique)
  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
  • Stokely Carmichael (Black Power)
  • Great Society

1880s

  • Pendleton (Civil Service) Act
  • Samuel Gompers
  • Gilded Age
  • Farmer’s Alliances
  • Chinese Exclusion Act

1700-1750s

  • Peter Zenger Trial
  • Great Awakening
  • James Oglethorpe
  • George Whitefield
  • Jonathan Edwards

1600-1650s

  • Pilgrims/Separatists
  • Anne Hutchinson
  • Headright System
  • Freedom of Conscience
  • City on a Hill

1900s

  • Platt Amendment
  • Louis Sullivan
  • Progressive Movement
  • Russo-Japanese War
  • Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty

1880s

  • Pragmatism (William James)
  • Salvation Army
  • John Dewey
  • Young Men’s Christian Association
  • Edward Bellamy (Looking Backward)

1840s

  • Prigg v. Pennsylvania
  • Mexican American War
  • Mormons
  • Free Soilers
  • American Anti-Slavery Society

1760s

  • Quartering Act
  • Stamp Act
  • Paxton Boys
  • Sugar Act
  • No Taxation Without Representation

1970s

  • SALT I Treaty
  • Hippies
  • Camp David Accords
  • Mayaguez Incident
  • Bakke v. Board of Regents

1790s

  • Samuel Slater
  • Federalist/First American Party System
  • Pinckney Treaty
  • Undeclared Naval War
  • Full Funding/Assumption

1930s

  • Securities and Exchange Commission
  • Neutrality Acts
  • Court Packing Scheme
  • “Share the Wealth”
  • Indian Reorganization Act

1840s

  • Seneca Falls Convention
  • Maine Laws
  • Irish Immigration
  • Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
  • Wilmot Proviso

1940s

  • Servicemen’s Readjustment Act
  • Ralph Bunche
  • George Kennan
  • United Nations
  • Korematsu v. U.S.

1890s

  • Settlement House Movement
  • William Jennings Bryan
  • Atlanta Compromise
  • Jingoism
  • Sherman Silver Purchase Act

1780s

  • Shays’ Rebellion
  • Northwest Ordinance
  • Three-Fifths Compromise
  • Articles of Confederation
  • Annapolis Convention

1880s

  • Social Gospel
  • Knights of Labor
  • Jim Crow Laws
  • A Century of Dishonor
  • Social Darwinism

1890s

  • Spanish-American War
  • Booker T. Washington
  • Gospel of Wealth
  • Yellow Journalism
  • Sherman Anti-Trust Act

1900s

  • Spheres of Influence
  • Big Stick Policy
  • Lochner v. New York
  • Gentlemen’s Agreement
  • Muckrakers

1760s

  • Stamp Act Congress
  • Sons of Liberty
  • Non-Importation Agreements
  • Pontiac’s Rebellion
  • Townshend Acts

1980s

  • Supply-Side Economics
  • Iran-Contra
  • Geraldine Ferraro
  • Oliver North
  • “Evil Empire”

1770s

  • Tea Act
  • Boston Massacre
  • Gaspee Affair
  • First/Second Continental Congress
  • Crisis Papers

1870s

  • The Grange
  • Credit Mobilier Scandal
  • Long Drives
  • Horatio Alger
  • Chief Joseph

1900s

  • Theodore Roosevelt
  • Upton Sinclair (The Jungle)
  • Emilio Aguinaldo
  • Pure Food and Drug Act
  • Anthracite Coal Strike

1650-1700s

  • Trade and Navigation Acts
  • Bacon’s Rebellion
  • King Phillip’s War
  • Salutary Neglect
  • Halfway Covenant

1830s

  • Trail of Tears
  • Dorothea Dix
  • Nullification
  • William Lloyd Garrison/Liberator
  • Worcester v. Georgia

1810s

  • Treaty of Ghent
  • Hartford Convention
  • Adams-Onis Treaty
  • War Hawks
  • American System

1910s

  • Treaty of Versailles
  • Federal Trade Commission
  • Irreconcilables
  • Keating-Owen Child Labor Act
  • Ballinger-Pinchot Affair

1910s

  • Triple Wall of Privilege
  • Sussex/Arabic Pledges
  • Food Administration
  • Zimmerman Note (Telegram)

1910s

  • Underwood-Simmons Tariff
  • Bull Moose Party
  • Federal Reserve Act
  • “He Kept Us Out of War”
  • Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

1910s

  • Volstead Act
  • Woodrow Wilson
  • Reservationists
  • Fourteen Points
  • Insurgents Revolt

1960s

  • Voting Rights Act
  • Barry Goldwater
  • Rachel Carson (Silent Spring)
  • Cuban Missile Crisis
  • Vietnamization (Guam/Nixon Doctrine)

1970s

  • War Powers Act
  • Equal Rights Amendment
  • OPEC
  • Helsinki Accords
  • Kent State

1830s

  • Whigs/2nd American Party System
  • Apologist’s View of Slavery
  • Force Act
  • Independent Treasury
  • Specie Circular

1890s

  • William Randolph Hearst
  • Pullman Strike
  • J.P. Morgan
  • Cross of Gold Speech
  • Plessy v. Ferguson

1930s

  • Works Progress Administration (WPA)
  • Cash and Carry
  • Sit-Down Strike
  • John Steinbeck (Grapes of Wrath)
  • Social Security

1600-1650s

  • Indentured Servants
  • Mayflower Compact
  • Roger Williams
  • Great Puritan Migration
  • House of Burgesses

1860s

  • Seward’s Folly
  • Sharecropping
  • Tenure of Office Act
  • Redemption (Redeemers)
  • Scalawags